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> If you're a landlord or hotelier,

Yes. Also: Parent of teenagers.

Why is /usr/local bad advice?

There are quite a few introductions to macros. Maybe like monads, it's a topic where people need to read a few until one "clicks" for them.

Having said that, I think this is among the best. The writing style is friendly, the examples are meaningful, and it builds up in digestible steps.

> tend to list prices inc VAT in Europe

I was under the impression it's a legal requirement to show the inc VAT price. (And, show it as the most-prominent price -- no trickery like showing exc VAT bold, and inc VAT in fine print.)

Would "responded" include only actual replies, or also no-reply downvotes?

I ask because lately I'm experiencing an increasing proportion of the latter. Apparently pg has endorsed these on the grounds that they are the pure logical inverse of no-reply upvotes. Although I disagree, that's the official stance, and if it is to continue to be the reality here, I think any new notification feature ought to include those, too.

Because that way, if a comment is being downvoted, then I'd know sooner. I'd have the option of adding clarification -- just like if someone took the time to reply with an actual comment and I were to get notified.

I think another difference is that the bulk of FedEx and UPS customers are businesses -- who typically are smart enough to allocate business among at least two vendors. Short-term this keeps your suppliers honest on price and service. Long-term it hopefully sustains more than 1 supplier. Even when an industry has one "gorilla" (e.g. Intel), business customers will try to sustain at least one "chimpanzee" (e.g. AMD).

However this dynamic is missing from consumer businesses.

Somewhat related: Some who advocate for workplace diversity are suspicious that "culture fit" is often a dog whistle meaning something like "young white brogrammers". I believe that suspicion is justified. At the same time, this post reminds me that company culture isn't always only that. It's rewarding to look at any organization through the eyes of an anthropologist. The idea that mid-size startups are actually closer to religions than tribes, for example, is something I find especially interesting.

It is disappointing that you got downvoted. Hopefully it was an accidental downvote due to HN's poor mobile browsing support, as opposed to someone being unwilling or unable to explain why they disagree with you.

That's not how I understood it. It says they're doing a hybrid STW and concurrent GC.

(a) A mutator may be stopped for up to 10 ms of every 50 ms by the STW collector.

(b) If more collection is needed, it will transition to a concurrent collector for the remaining 40 ms. Concurrent may pause stop a mutator for up to an additional 1 ms.

Therefore the worst case is 10 + 1 = 11 ms, not 1 ms.

My new habit: Automatically up-vote every greyed-out comment I encounter. I don't go searching for them, but when I see one, I upvote it without even reading it.

I used to read them carefully first, to decide whether I should up-vote. But from that experience, I've learned I almost always should -- the downvotes were rarely warranted, and almost always lazy and brainless. So I may as well save time and cut to the chase -- just upvote.

(If enough of us do this, maybe we can minimize the problem HN is seemingly unwilling and/or unable to address.)

I saw a nice attribution at the end of the post. (But possibly it was added belatedly, e.g. after seeing your comment.)

Module systems really ought to allow renaming on import. (Such as: rename individual functions, add a prefix to all of the functions, or even do a regexp style replace of all existing prefixes if any.)

But unfortunately, from a quick glance it looks like Go's doesn't, is that correct?

^ Q.E.D.